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Infectious disease specialists also warn DF, Guadalajara, Tijuana and Michoacan
They warn of a new strain of pneumococcus in Monterrey
It can lead to mental retardation and death in children under five years old.
11.09.2011 ? Trends
Serotype 19A is considered highly aggressive. Photo: Cuartoscuro
Warned that infectious disease in Mexico, specifically Tijuana, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Michoac?n and Mexico City carrying a new strain of pneumococcus, identified as serotype 19 A, which is highly aggressive and that causes the lungs to fill with pus, cause disabilities as mental retardation and, in many cases, death of children under five years.
For this reason, the industry is working closely with the Ministry of Health to through the website www.prevenirelneumococo.com.mx settle the electronic national vaccination card through which parents receive text messages their cell phones on dates to be followed by immunization in general, including the 19 pneumococcal serotypes, in the public sector, according to the age of each child.
"No good to have the vaccine but the basic picture is completed," said Antonio Ridge Nursery, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Hospital General de Mexico.
After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States, launched the alert against the new strain circulating that just barely produce a new vaccine, Pfizer, health authorities in Mexico remain epidemiological alert as they detected an increase of 200 percent of cases, common pneumococcal serotype and the new.
Mercado said that the recent meeting of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases were released publications which show that the presence of serotype 19 A, until a few years ago circulated only in the United States is already in the country; therefore, it is necessary that parents bring to the IMSS. ISSSTE, SSA, to vaccinate children.
"The studies have shown that serotype 19A is highly prevalent and aggressive: the lung filled with a liquid, which can be inclusive of pus, it is very difficult to treat, you have to drain the amount of liquid that has often put a tube, we must operate, we remove part of the lung and these children are left with life-long consequences, for this reason the Government is now taking action on the matter and vaccinating children with vaccines containing serotype 19 A ".
Also, due to the constant mobility also Epidemiological System of Mexico and also reported pneumococcal infections with serotype 19 A in Guadalajara, Mexico City and Michoacan. "The Ministry of Health is in active surveillance in five states of the country trying to see what is happening."
According to experts, the Ministry of Health in its latest statistical yearbook of the Department of Epidemiology 304 thousand reported cases of pneumococcal pneumonia per 100 000 children, "we are talking about 26 000 children with pneumonia in children under one year; children under 4 years to 425 per 100 000. There are small numbers. The mortality rate is 88 per 100 000 infants per year, "said Gerardo Mercado, infectious, IMSS adviser and manager of the division of Pfizer.
Meanwhile Antonio Ridge Nursery, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Hospital General de Mexico said that if a pneumonia caused adverse reactions, when infants develop meningitis (inflammation of the membranes of the brain, like attacks the nervous system), a healthy child pneumonia, which I went to kindergarten, becomes a person with mental retardation and, in most cases, die from it is invasive to the brain.
"There are consequences. You can not help himself, suffer from severe mental retardation. And this happens with a child who was normal, healthy, who lived with other children, out of kindergarten and never have to be the same, "he said.
This is an invasive disease in 30% of all cases in children under 5 years. "There are many theories, that the serotype 19 A is cyclical, occurring for years or decades, another theory is that vaccines that remove the first seven serotypes that were killing children, resurfaced other, so the industry requires innovation, vaccines, just to see what is happening. "
Invasive disease caused by a pocket expenses to families who have no social security, 80 thousand dollars for seven days in a private hospital, regardless of complications, surgery, special equipment, and rehabilitation.
Mexico, despite having one of the larger schemes of vaccination records a mortality rate of up to 20 children, the seven days of age, per thousand births, which places him, even below the achievements by OECD countries which have only 6 infant deaths per thousand births, according to the Latin American Society of Pediatrics
And specifically, die from preventable and curable diseases such as diarrheal infections, pneumococcal pneumonia. "We expanded coverage against pneumococcus and rotavirus, but in Mexico there are at least 500 thousand deaths per year from these infections, and the figure may be higher, according to reports from the Ministry of Health, because not achieved all deaths to report relevant crop, "he explained Javier Nieto Alonso Guevara, member of the Latin American Society of Pediatrics.
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